Posted by Ikke on 10/30/06 00:05

dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in
news:doraymeRidThis-6BA4A0.10473830102006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:

<snipped>
> Gee, old B is always suggesting a link for this... where is
> it...? Anyway, perhaps
>
> http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout3.html
>
> is too tricky?

I've seen that page before. The first thing that immediately jumps out of
the CSS at that page, are the words "ugly" and "hack". So yes :)

> Or
>
> http://www.glish.com/css/7.asp

Another page I've seen, which employs a hack.

> Or just float a div left and right, give them a width in px, and
> give the main content div no width but certainly right and left
> margins in which the floats sit. Don't position anything at all
> under this suggestion. And then come and complain about the
> details. It will be a valuable thread. Start very simply and
> complain loudly at the first sign of trouble (before you
> introduce tons and tons of complexity)

Basically, that's how I started out - a left column, right column, and a
center one with no width specified.

It all works fine when the widths are in percentages - but as soon as I
set the widths left and right in pixels, and drop the width of the center
column, the right column drops beneath the center.

Why all this talk about complaining? Is it really that hard to get a
three column layout? Is it really necessary to employ hacks? If that's
the case, why does everybody insist on using css instead of tables
(besides the fact that that's how its supposed to be and
blahblahblah...).

Thanks for your reply,

Ikke

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